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“I was totally blown away by how isolating having a special needs son can be. Often, people don’t understand when he acts differently than other kids or when we don’t go to something because we know he cannot handle it. Our friends try to be understanding, but it’s very lonesome.”
—drsuessgirly
“No one ever imagines their pregnancy to go anything but smoothly and their lives with their children to be anything but ordinary. We found out about some of our son’s medical needs at the 20-week anomaly scan, and it shattered the illusion of what we thought we already knew about parenting from having our daughter. Our son ended up having open heart surgery when he was 23 hours old, then three subsequent heart surgeries all before 4 months old. No one could have prepared us for the amount of adaptation we’ve had to do to our parenting style, and our daughter’s autism diagnosis is definitely another learning curve for us. Our family has definitely been through the ringer these last couple of years, to say the least, but the resilience of children has absolutely blown me away.”
—lafemmerequin
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/asiawmclain/parents-share-what-surprised-them-about-parenthood
